The Great War and the United States Home Front

As part of the ongoing series of changing exhibitions highlighting Pequot Library’s Special Collections of rare books, manuscripts, and archives on view in the Reading Room and Perkin Gallery, a Pages from Pequot Special Collections' exhibition.

This exhibition considers the question posed by those at home during the Great War, "What can we do?" and features a selection of books, maps, military diagrams, pamphlets, and propaganda posters from Pequot Library's Special Collections. Visitors will discover and learn more about a variety of patriotic civilian efforts that took place on the American home front after the United States entered WWl in 1917.